Diona Kusari
nationality
KOSOVO
area
Multidisciplinary art
recidence
Gjakova
institution
Independent Space Index
time period
May 2025 – June 2025
01
BIO
Diona Kusari (1997, Gjakova) is a multidisciplinary artist, writer and researcher, cultural and arts mediator based in Kosovo. Her work focuses on performance, participatory events, video and sound installations as well as short films. Her artistic practice deals with illustrating the ‘invisible’ in terms of ideology and faith, folk practices, public expressions of vulnerability, challenging apparent dichotomy and delineation of the private (individual) and the public (state, society). Diona is part of the Potpuri collective, which focuses on experimental research, self-organized and decentralized knowledge production. She is part of the first collective in Kosovo which conceptualizes and runs cultural and arts mediation programs. She has initiated and coordinated various research, educational and advocacy projects for several civil society organizations in Kosovo in the past seven years.
02
Project
During her residency at the MQ, Diona Kusari will complete an internship at Independent Space Index. This will allow her to continue her research on independent cultural spaces,, a process which she’s been carrying out during the last half a year, of the scenes in Kosovo, Serbia and Slovenia. The artist is interested in the structure, methods of working, impact and sustainability of spaces that are independent, self-organized or collectively-run. She will specifically take an interest in actors on the scene with a focus on interactive and live art, participatory practices and community art, experimental and self-publishing practices as well as art mediation programs in the country.
